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Re: Evolution mimetype tweak
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A Basch)
Thu Jun 6 17:27:44 2002
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To: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
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In-Reply-To: Your message of "06 Jun 2002 14:12:26 EDT."
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Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2002 17:27:40 -0400
From: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
> I don't remember who did this (but it is very good that it was done.)
> Someone added additional MIME types so that things like word and excel
> docs could be displayed from inside evolution.
>
> Now that OpenOffice 1.0 and StarOffice 1.0 are deployed to Athena, the
> MIME configuration should change to start one of them rather than
> StarOffice 5.2.
FTR, I talked to Bill about this offline, and he will coordinate things
with me when the new apps are ready for prime time. (Currently, we have
a StarOffice app defined to "gathrun soffice").
Bob
